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Snapshot at night, taken with flash... Notice my black cardinal...now half opaque.

One of my first livestock are pipefish. Still living to this day..Anyway, gobies and chromis would be good fishes to start out with. The bad point about gobies are once you add them they will be almost impossible to catch out unless you tear down your rockwork. Good point about chromis is that they can easily be caught out using artificial fishing bait. Suggest you start out with small fishes (anything but damsels and basslets) as to give your tank time to adjust to the bioload. A lawnmower blenny could be a potential first fish as it will help to control initial algae outbreaks.

Hmm..free zooplankton what.. Anyway, cleaner shrimps are hemaphrodites...all will have eggs in the end.

Hmm..still got 2 things to clear...final pricing. Palythoa - $12 (with free blue discosoma) Fungia - $22 (Kind of puzzled..no one keeps fungia nowadays? )

Try reducing phosphate levels to 0 and change your bulb to something 10,000K and above. Light in the yellow spectrum tend to promote algae growth faster.

Not sure if this is true, but generally I find acros healthy if they produce a layer of mucus when they are taken out of water and they shed this mucus when being put back in water. Weak specimens don't tend to give off alot of mucus.

? The way I feed is scary. 2 pump of coralplankton and GP (this amount : ** per day). 1 squirt of Bioplankton for my tube worms and scallop every 3-4 days. Depends on your livestock really.. I don't believe in starving livestock. Even my fish are fed daily..

I find coralplankton quite good. Smells good too. Anyway, LPS and sps are carnivorous. As long as what you feed them are of the correct size, meaty and of marine origin it should be ok. I also feed Golden pearls. Effectiveness of these 2 products are great. They literally brought my yellow star polyps back from shrinkage. Now growing with 1-2cm long tentacles.

Eh...these dun really eat DT or any form of phyto. Golden pearls or coralplankton would be a better choice.

If I were to make a new tank, I would get parabolic mirrors in the hood above the lights, and mirror the sides of the tank and below the tank bottom if I going barebottom concept. Then I can even plant sps upside down. How about that? Let there be light! Only thing is that I might end up with fish swimming upside down?

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/feb2003/chem.htm

If you look closely at the sinularia some of the tissues are darker colored than the rest. Not natural... We should all boycott dyed corals. I wonder how can people be so greedy for $$ as to artificially dye corals.

Palythoa (I think) Still available on coralline encrusted liverock. Grew out from 3-4 polyps. Come with free blue discosoma frag. Going for $15.

Upz. Will be free today. Attached is a pic of the fungia. Taken from top under 10,000K ATI T5s. $25.

I see potential for a hood made up with internal mirrors. *just my crazy idea*.

You can place them under the lights if you have no problem with algae. It really does'nt matter to them whether they are blasted with light or put into the dark.

The pink sinularia and yellow goniopora look dyed.

All this talk about skimmers....I think I must hide already..

I talking about caulerpa sp. at the bottom of the pic. The pipe organ sold long time ago already. Anyway. Short tentacled plate still available for $25. Palythoa(I think)(if not is a zoanthid) still available for $15 (with free blue discosoma). collection in east area.

Cup coral reserved, others still available. Price for palythoa with free blue discosoma revised to $15. Price for sps revised to $35. Caulerpa sp. - $5 Fungia - $25 Need to clear asap.

Ya..both still doing well. Actually one of my longest surviving fishes. Been in my tank since last year.

Ya...but I did'nt notice my glass shrimp having eggs at all for the past few days.. Oh well, free food for my pipefish..

DT and bioplankton won't really be touched by LPS at all...Go for meaty foods.

You'll soon be facing copious levels of nitrates...

Not really sure if it is crab larvae, looks a little large to be shrimp larvae. Not alot of larvae, only saw a few. Each was around 2-3mm long. Looked like miniature mysis shrimp, lacking the swimmerets. The only crustaceans that can reproduce in my tank (because of availability of partners) are boxing crab, sri lankan pistols, heliofungia shrimp (cant be, female still got eggs), ###### shrimp, urocaridella shrimp (can't be, saw the larvae before), emerald crab (can't be, still baby size), acro crabs. Looking at the size of the larvae, could it be pistol shrimp larvae instead?